Want a fun game to teach yourself hiragana or katakana? Like monsters and manga? Check out these fun apps! A few months back I had the pleasure of working with Jessica Perrin on Japanese language and culture workshops for Year 9s. Jessica’s husband is also interested in Japanese and has just released two apps designed [...]
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Monster app for learning katakana and hiragana
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apps, hiragana app, Japanese language activity, Jessica Perrin, kappa, katakana app, tanuki, yokai on March 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a tanuki in the classroom! Japanese language learning and yokai demons
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged appearances, Art Speaks Japanese, diversity, GeGeGe no Kitaro, gyuuki, Hyogo Prefectural Government Cultural Centre, Japan, Japan Foundation Sydney, Japanese demons, Japanese mythology, Jessica Perrin, Melissa Luyke, Shingo Usami, tanuki, ushi-oni, yokai, youkai, Yuko Fujimitsu on June 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Creative language teaching ideas Today I was at the Hyogo Prefectural Cultural Government Centre as part of a series of workshops organised by Ms Yuko Fujimitsu, Japanese Language Advisor for the Department of Education as part of the National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools Program (NALSSP). We worked with Year 9 students from three [...]
A monster activity for celebrating International Childrens Book Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged activity, bunyip, International Childrens Book Day, Japanese mythology, multiculturalism, taniwha, tanuki, tokoloshe on February 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Celebrating international childrens books Looking for ways to celebrate International Childrens Book Day (April 2, the birthday of Hans Christian Anderson)? Want to entertain a bunch of kids for a couple of hours? Like to imagine weird and wonderful creatures? Give this activity a shot: Remember…the creatures you talk about can be as scary (or [...]
Awesome fun with Kappa and Tanuki
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Japan, Japan for kids, Japanese demons, Japanese monsters, Japanese mythology, Japanese yokai, kappa, language, resources, tanuki, yokai on December 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Want to see just how ubiquitous yokai demons are in Japanese culture? Check out the awesome tanuki and kappa animations and resources the Tokyo-Mitsubishi bank put together as part of an advertising campaign for their DC card. The ads feature a shape-shifting tanuki and a (traditionally) blood-hungry kappa. And they’re very cute! (I can’t imagine [...]
The JET program, budget cuts and Return On Investment
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged diversity, Japan, JET, multiculturalism, tanuki, travel on July 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Yokozo Japan! I studied Japanese at high school, but my first trip to Japan was as part of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, or JET, a huge international exchange program that now has 50,000 alumni around the world. I was a JET in Kawanishi (the town Miku Takeshita and her family come from ). [...]
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